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RulerOfTheRest t1_je1ba74 wrote

That's the Gateway Building entrance. Possibly someone was shot somewhere else and they were brought there in a private car instead of the Emergency Department entrance, it's happened before. If someone was shot there, I would have heard it...

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[deleted] t1_je1c8ty wrote

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ithinkimaybe t1_je1jp6v wrote

I wonder if they called 911 and got put on hold and decided taking someone by car was faster.

This happens pretty frequently.

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bmore_in_rva t1_je1ro68 wrote

I sure hope people are making that choice rather than waiting. There's been a lot of studies recently on quicker transport to a trauma hospital versus EMS care in the field / on the way, and the take-away as far as I can tell is that faster transport to the hospital is much more important for survival and other outcomes than involvement of EMS.

Here's some of the studies:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002013831400271Xhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912155/

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freeride1 t1_je1rpev wrote

More likely they didn’t want the heat and took the victim and dropped him off. If you call an ambulance for a shooting victim you set off a police investigation.

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vtEB OP t1_je1bh1f wrote

Yea, that’s what I was thinking. And they’d likely lock things down if there was an actual shooting right there. Thanks!

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wagonboss t1_je1i4cy wrote

Happens routinely. When I’m parked in the loop and see a vehicle with 4 ways and driving frantically, I worry that I’ll be stuck there- so there’s that

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